Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1887-04-30

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and partial subsistence after 1t Is forgotten, ex-
cept Incidentally that wrote 30 years for news
pagers
III did not would believe the land doomed.
oeneve we shall be corrupt country, 70 large
extent; as long as we have dishonest publishers
ana Politicians who do not know what Inter-
national copyright means. A country which pro-
tects foreigners gun and not an American book
President Cleveland does not feel from his sisters
| experience with a review publisher, that the
| ment destroy them. Stealinga book to read 1t
| never made man noble. Our people must learn
| 10 read with honest hands, and to estimate book
enough TO wish to preserve II in library, as they
| cannot do with the cheap unbound folio books A
| few nights ago all Washington society and gov
eminent went to see play, that raised So, 900 for
| many actors for year. It has paid the English
an,h1 from Aeroa yet it is thought
| Catoctin?"
1.-TWO years to write 1T, twenty years to get the
| material. TO Jacob they seemed but day"
How long have you been with the Cincinnati
Enquirer nOw?"
eleven years this coming May. That paper has
liberal ana modest publisher, who is not grudg-
Ing his writers scope and hearty influence. 1t Is
this privilege have enjoyed which nettles the
small Try OF writer's In my distant bafliwck, VINO
reiegate themselves TO the background and bark
| there. MY sincere advice to young writers is to
talk salaries over, like the lower range OF actors;
not TO nerd with unworthy fellow-craftsmen, put
Otner aVOcatl0D6 IL Is less Ills
turbing to the mind.
HOW GATH KEEPS TRANQUIL.
EAT the beginning gave my confidence too freely,
was made sensitive by news-carrying friends, and
wasted time shooting rival tidbits. No ingenuity
can now get to my mind any offensive paragraph.
While they are proofs OF ones vitality they
should no more be read by the subject Of them
than BLACKBOARD should be allowed to prate in
your house. My mail is read over by one who
knows me well, and what viii do me no good is
| /
three times year any newspaper office. Twenty
seven years ago aspired to be special or absent
alone, but it came slowly w. next felt the CORE
spending desire for location-to have my tools and
my time and tissues and become common at sum-
mer resorts and so on This DESIRE alsO Is nearly
fulfilled. consider that am just ready for work
now"
''Did you not spend your earnings freely for
some years!'
For twenty years I spent all the money in
seeing that did not spend for books For six or
seven years only / have paid some attention TO
accommodating. AS am but forty-six years old
ought now to be good for fourteen years OF realza
ton"
"What family have your"
81 have two children and two grandchildren.
They are strewn along from four weeks old up to
twenty years. Nobody loses time"
They report that you have put up quite SET
tlement at Gapland?'
rooms over It; stone and brick Dutch villa OF
seven gables, nine rooms, and washington Irving
pofci ana Il stone dining lodge or four rooms.
These united buildings are one hundred and fifty.
five feet long. There are also stable and tenant
house OF eighty-tve feet, and a lattice house,
which, with two log houses. makes three good stu
dos for artist friends, all with the cold north light
Then have two summer houses, a windmill, two
small stables, an fce-hOuse, chicken house, and
Dutch oven. 1t is like the boys rendering Of how
the leopard could change his spots: If he don't
like this spot he can go and lie down in yOn one.
have planted two hundred apple trees, six hum
dred grape vines, and hundred miscellaneous
trees, anu have nine acres in cultivation and live
OF woods, and have built 5000 feet Of stone wall.
IL the Sixth Army Corps celebrate the twenty-tifth
anniversary OF the battle Of Champions Gap they
will find the place looking very different from
1862"
"To what quality do you attribute your getting
on"
81 suppose to activity Of mind and curiosity
about the world. have written for myself quite
as much as for the information OF Others"
"Do YOU regret not having founded some news
paDer?"
''It might have saved me so much labor in the
present. but could hardly have got NE as much
Independence. The tendency OF mercantile
interest in newspapers to take ones aggressive
ness away. Besides, the weight Of property reSpon-
sibility would draw down any free-winged spirit
like kite trying to carry fish. l took from
shakespeare my conception OF my business, where
Ariel says:
az will be correspondent to command,
And do your sprung gently"